English filmmaker John Maybury was BOTD in 1958. Born in London, he studied art at North East London Polytechnic and Central St Martins. He began his professional career working for Derek Jarman, designing sets for his films Jubilee and was a designer and editor on The Last of England, War Requiem and The Tempest. He collaborated with Cerith Wyn Evans on a series of experimental films, producing their first major show A Certain Sensibility in 1981, and directed music videos for the Pet Shop Boys, Boy George, Cindy Lauper, Marc Almond and Morrissey. He received international acclaim for his music video of Sinéad O’Connor’s 1990 cover of Nothing Compares 2 U. Filmed mostly in close-up and focusing on the shaven-headed O’Connor crying as she sang, it became one of the signature pop-culture images of the 1990s. He made an extraordinary feature film debut with Love Is the Devil, a biopic of painter Francis Bacon, focusing on his sado-masochistic relationship with George Dyer. Prevented from using Bacon’s works in the film, Maybury re-created the painter’s nightmarish images with distorted camera moves, fish-eye lenses and extreme close-ups. Maybury’s other films include the psychological drama The Jacket and the Dylan Thomas biopic The Edge of Love. In 2017, he directed a segment of the portmanteau film Rotterdam, I Love You. Now working in television, he has directed episodes of The Borgias, Marco Polo and final episode of the raunchy swords-and-sandals series Rome.